In recent years, deforestation and logging rates in the Amazon rainforest have accelerated, and the spatial patterns of forest loss in the Amazon rainforest have changed.
NOT BSTOTAL BS
SOME BS — Verdict: Mixed
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The Short Version
The statement blends a real past surge with an inaccurate present-tense impression. Amazon deforestation did accelerate in roughly 2019–2022, and the geography of forest loss has changed, but the strongest recent data for 2023–2025 show deforestation falling substantially rather than continuing to accelerate. The spatial-shift evidence is also better established over decades than as a uniquely recent development.
Caveats
Recent high-quality monitoring shows deforestation declined after 2022, so describing acceleration as the current recent-years trend misstates the latest evidence.
Changes in where and how forest loss occurs are documented, but many of those shifts are long-running and not solely a new recent-years phenomenon.
The cited evidence tracks deforestation and primary forest loss more directly than logging rates, so the logging portion of the claim is less firmly supported.